The String of Pearls — Thomas Peckett Prest, James Malcolm Rymer
Topics: класика
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THE STRING OF PEARLS;
Or, The Barber of Fleet Street.
A Domestic Romance.
London: Published by E. Lloyd, Salisbury Square, Fleet Street.
MDCCCL
PREFACE.
THE ROMANCE OF THE STRING OF PEARLS having excited in the Literary world an almost unprecedented interest, it behoves the author to say a few words to his readers upon the completion of his labours.
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